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This how-to-guide tells that how you can join our social awareness campaign. We will be pleased to see that you are at the starting point for a meaningful change. We hope to assist your commitments and actions, which are initial steps for alleviating global poverty.

Getting Started with Social Media

Do you have any social networking service accounts? Are you active on Twitter or Facebook? Are you interested in uploading photos on Twitter with short messages?

Do You Have a Smartphone?

When you find useful information about something, how do you share you're your friends in the right way? Do you know that poverty is not just a problem of hunger? Have you ever read or heard about relationships between poverty and education, water shortage, sanitation, agricultural innovation, maternal health, child mortality, AIDS/HIV, and malaria?

Talk to Friends about the Number of Global Poverty

You may have had serious talks with your friends about your business, a brand new product you got, or gossips about celebrities. How many times today have you thought about global poverty and talked about it with others? Could you turn your conversation to a topic on poverty for a while?

Blogging about Global Poverty

Are you a blogger? Do you think that blogging about global poverty would be too much for you because you have not enough knowledge?

Organize Advocacy or Campaign Events in Your School or Community

TYou might feel that talking only to people around you and sharing information online are not enough. Then, come out to the street and organize street campaigns to raise social awareness of global poverty.


	This how-to-guide tells that how you can join our social awareness campaign. We will be pleased to see that you are at the starting point for a meaningful change. We hope to assist your commitments and actions, which are initial steps for alleviating global poverty. Getting Started with Social Media Do you have any social networking service accounts? Are you active on Twitter or Facebook? Are you interested in uploading photos on Twitter with short messages?
	Start sharing public knowledge on global poverty with your friends through social networking sites or blogs. Social media support the creation and exchange of user-generated content. They facilitate interaction, information-sharing, and relationship-building amongst users. By now Social media is an essential part of social awareness campaign. If you are familiar with various functions and services of SNS, start now! We hope that you connect with your friends, family members, and colleagues on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, and share our contents. Simply toss links on global poverty to your social network friends. Here are links to the channels through which GP3 Korea offers useful information on global poverty: www.povertywiki.org, facebook.com/povertyinformation, blog.naver.com/gp3PROJECT, twitter.com/gp3project?

	Do You Have a Smartphone? When you find useful information about something, how do you share you're your friends in the right way? Do you know that poverty is not just a problem of hunger? Have you ever read or heard about relationships between poverty and education, water shortage, sanitation, agricultural innovation, maternal health, child mortality, AIDS/HIV, and malaria?
	Smartphones can be used to learn about global poverty. Smartphones, together with social media, have already changed the landscape of public awareness. With more than 30 million smartphone users, nationwide wireless services, and 95% of the households using the broadband Internet in South Korea, we can integrate a large number of the population into our ambitious information campaigns. Smartphones, wireless Internet, and social media can become effective tools to share and distribute public knowledge on global poverty. You can find interesting topics and contents that we provide on our mobile application and social network service pages, with your smartphone at any time. You can help our public awareness campaign effectively by following us on our Twitter or liking our Facebook page.

	Talk to Friends about the Number of Global Poverty You may have had serious talks with your friends about your business, a brand new product you got, or gossips about celebrities. How many times today have you thought about global poverty and talked about it with others? Could you turn your conversation to a topic on poverty for a while?
	An estimated 30,000 children die every day due to extreme poverty. That means the death of 18 children a minute. Approximately 600 million children live in extreme poverty and 2.6 billion around the world do not have access to adequate sanitation. 4100 children die every day from severe diarrhea, as a result of poor sanitation and hygiene. Nearly 11,700 people die every day from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Two-thirds of these people are living in sub-Saharan Africa. Almost 67.5 million children are out of school around the world, a figure equivalent to the entire primary school-aged population in Europe and North America. If you know some of these key figures about global poverty, you will be able to smoothly lead the conversation to a series of discussions on poverty. People simply do not talk about global poverty in daily life, but just need someone who can initiate productive discussions on the issues. You can also share what you know about, and what you are doing with regards to poverty reduction, or humanitarian approaches like love, kindness, generosity for the impoverished people.

	Blogging about Global Poverty Are you a blogger? Do you think that blogging about global poverty would be too much for you because you have not enough knowledge?
	Just try to write a blog entry about what you have learned and felt from the reality of global poverty. Meanwhile, you should stay informed and keep learning about poverty issues; no one wants to read a blog from someone who doesn't really understand what he or she is talking about. Blog postings give readers opportunities to ponder about issues affecting global poverty, for at least one minute. Whether you have many followers on Twitter or friends on Facebook is not an important question here. Your blog entries will be shown in search results, and read by many people who look for information about certain key words. Blogs can become a powerful tool for promoting social awareness and even generating a circle of devoted readers. This group, as is interested in global poverty issues, could be inspired to share your entries to others, and give you favorable feedbacks.

	Organize Advocacy or Campaign Events in Your School or Community TYou might feel that talking only to people around you and sharing information online are not enough. Then, come out to the street and organize street campaigns to raise social awareness of global poverty.
	First, start with your school, community and small groups that are the right fit in your opinion. You can simply pass out leaflets with information on poverty. You can also throw events such as petitions, free hugs, flash mob performances, or basically anything that uses your talents. You might be able to find some companions who agree with you when you suggest a flash mob event or a skit in front of any specific audience. Focus on a specific topic that you want to stress, rather than addressing the overarching issue of global poverty. Make sure to deliver the core arguments and critical elements that you want to point out. Second, you should be confident and proactive. Do not be shy bringing forth a public interest oriented campaign. Present yourself and your philanthropic goals with confidence. Be proactive in finding the right projects to support, and put your time and effort persistently into it. Map out practical considerations and tangible steps needed to incorporate philanthropy in your intimate groups. Your enthusiastic vision will stimulate other participants and friends to build a momentum for effective giving. You can bring philanthropy into your community. Improving social awareness takes time, and social change is incremental at best, so keep an eye on the long-term goals.


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